ll how Dinah would cook his dinner and mend his
clothes, but his father could not bear to hear him, and finished off
with saying that it was his own affair, and he wished them well.

It was within a year after their marriage that Harry was engaged, by
Miss Foote. In great glee he made haste to prepare himself for his
important new place in every way he could think of. He learned to trim a
vine, not knowing that the place he was going to was too far north for
vine-growing. He made interest with a butcher to learn how to kill a
pig. He made a little collection of superior cabbage and turnip seeds,
seed potatoes, &c., thus proving to Miss Foote at the outset that he had
plenty of energy and quickness. She found, too, that he had courage. His
employers, vexed to lose two servants whom they had trained to excessive
economy, as well as hard work, did every thing that was possible, while
there was any chance of success, to frighten them from moving northward.
They told Dinah, with mournful countenances, that they should certainly
die--that it was all the same as being transported--that it was cruelty
in the parish officers to let them be tempted. Dinah repeated all this
to Harry; and it staggered him at first; but he presently remembered
that Susan wrote that her health had improved; and her letters had not
only contained post-office orders, but plain signs that she was very
happy. Harry determined to proceed; and when he had once made up his
mind, his employers showed themselves very kind--helping their
preparations, and having them to dinner on the last day.

By their own account their journey must have been a curious affair.
Their heads were so full of notions of thieves and sharpers, that they
did every thing in the slyest way, and wrapped themselves in mystery,
and pretended to despise their boxes, while in one continued agony about
them. When met by a kind gentleman who was to see them through London,
Dinah pretended not to be the right person, lest the gentleman should
not be the right; so that it was lucky they did lose his help
altogether. Miss Foote was disagreeably impressed by their account of
their great slyness, and not less by the suspicious temper--natural,
perhaps, to Dinah, but not at all so to Harry--in which they began their
new mode of life. Dinah was no servant of hers; so she had nothing to do
with Dinah's ways, but to check the jealousy and suspicion she showed of
her young sister-in-law and the young c